The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2022

There have also been fears among some early adopters that they provide information too easily, and therefore inhibit the critical thinking skills of users. Deakin have pioneered the use of chatbots with their Genie tool, which provides information to students around things such as their deadlines.

Education 136

Education Early Adopters Ethics Technology 136

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns.

Early Adopters 80

Early Adopters Sample Deming Objective 80

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

Minimal adoption The lack of dissemination was emphasized by a paper from Finland’s VTT, which examines the adoption of digital technology across the Finnish manufacturing sector. It found that less than 10% of small and medium sized manufacturers were considering introducting new digital tools and systems.

Innovation 126

Innovation Technology Audience Early Adopters 126

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands.

Blog 353

Blog Early Adopters Niche Marketing Magazine 353

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

What leaders require is the understanding and the tools. People who are early adopters of the execution need encouragement to take risks. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Kaplan and David P. Norton and their Palladium associates.

Execution 211

Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

It’s also hard to keep a competitive advantage a secret these days, so again, it’s astounding to me that so many companies can’t figure out how to develop leaders by stealing the best practices from those that do or stumbling on proven, tried and true , research-backed leadership development models, tools, and practices. How can this be?

Leadership Development 272

Leadership Development Development How To Leadership 272

Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

Companies have begun using the tools that they have traditionally used to market to individuals to market to other companies. Just as there are always early adopters of new technologies, the ABM movement offers a tremendous opportunity to market leaders to increase their profits by looking for whales rather than guppies.

CRM 51

CRM Marketing Marketing Strategy Software 51

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The HR Technology Conference shed some light on how social tools will change HR in the coming years. If HR can take ownership of these social tools then they instantly become central to things like the culture of the organisation , the way people work , innovation , collaboration , and much more. What does the future hold though?

Early Adopters 91

Early Adopters ROI Media Tools 91

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations. This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses. The S.C.A.M.P.E.R. See what happened there?

Incubator 238

Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Once people see and understand this, it’s an easy leadership tool. I’ve had the honor and privilege of spending two decades working with early adopters of the future. Can you share an instance where your insights or recommendations led to a transformative change within an organization? Gender balance itself is transformative.

Diversity 52

Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Get into commerce as quickly as possible serving the minimum number of people you determine are needed to meet your plans at that stage of development. Be ready to adapt your plan to the variability in the markets you’ve chosen to serve.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Education Learning-by-Doing Marketing 139

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office? The results are in: what does the CMI community think? Each edition will now explore a segment of CMI’s Professional Standard.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

The breadth and variety of BPM tools has never been greater, yet the increasing availability of tools has not increased the success of BPM projects. You can target early adopters. The biggest barrier to BPM success is so often human related. Complexity is much more manageable. You're not spreading resources too thinly.

BPM 82

BPM Technology Early Adopters Project 82

Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. These tools make a PM’s work life much easier. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

Early Adopters 154

Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. In this case, it’s not.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Glassdoor has been consistently tracking the ChatGPT adoption rates ever since the AI came out and their numbers indicate that the use of the AI tool has gone up from 27 percent among the early adopters to 62 percent of professionals as of November. Are We Okay With Using ChatGPT at Work?

Tools 59

Tools Content Early Adopters Software 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

After Everett Rogers famously made the distinction between early and late adopters , academics in marketing and technology identified a number of differences between those who take quickly to innovations and those who don’t. First, what worked with early adopters isn’t likely to work with later adopters.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Innovation Short-term Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

It occurs in stages: Structuring an external product “love group” Transforming the love group into early platform adopters. Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption. After this, companies transform the enthusiasm of the love group into early adopters for the platform (phase 2).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

That means equipping each person in your enterprise with the skills and mindset that will help them successfully adapt whenever you introduce new tools like Slack, Basecamp, or even Google Drive into your workplace. It’s really easy to get caught up in the pressure to adopt the latest cool platform or tool. Insight Center.

Skills 8

Skills Organization Software Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. LCPs also participate in divestiture negotiations.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As always with technology adoption, there is an S-curve, already being scribbled by early adopters; when the inflection point is reached, expect sudden acceleration. So early preparation is needed. Start early to shift the leadership mindset. But the inflection point always happens faster than expected.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

To ensure a focus on the most valuable use cases, AI initiatives should be assessed and co-led by both business and technical leaders, an approach that has proved successful in the adoption of other digital technologies. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything. Digital capabilities come before AI.

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If firms had previous experience with expert systems, they are familiar with some of the necessary organizational and process changes arising from contemporary cognitive tools. They both work with vendors, of course, but have a strong focus on open source tools for internal development. Both firms have a long history of customer focus.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

Newly minted college grads face resistance to bringing their own devices to work, have to collaborate with ancient tools that lack basic Google Docs functionality, and face social media policies crafted by clueless legal teams without an understanding of the social psyche. So what's a business supposed to do?

Technology 15

Technology Early Adopters Bottom-up Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Those insights came from the research Adobe had done to develop the platform, as well as the data the platform was already generating from early adopters. As new home-repair problems and new tools and materials emerge, Home Depot can easily expand and update this content and push it to new channels. Retailers were all ears.

Content 8

Content Marketing B2C Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Business operations people who have process and subject matter expertise but no programming experience can, with only a few weeks of training, start automating processes with RPA tools. RPA is one automation tool, but not the only one, that will help to bring about this future of operations.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Its marketing budget was mainly focused on affluent people who liked being early adopters. Unsurprisingly, its competitors were targeting the same segment, using the traditional tools of fidelity cards ad rice promotions, with the inevitable result that everyone's profit margins suffered.

Marketing 8

Marketing Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We can provide the entrepreneurs with access to early adopter customers in the 170 countries in which we operate. They brought in 2000 people, a dozen projects, a couple of Big Data and content analytics tools, and a consulting unit (outside of IBM Global Services ).

Venture Funding 11

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

One reason is that new tools often don’t save the retailer enough or generate sufficient new revenue to cover their cost. To become the new normal, a technology has to make it beyond the early adopters – typically 10 to 15% of retail shoppers – and appeal to the less tech-savvy majority.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Cost Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

For instance, you might collect feedback from early adopters who’ve already transitioned to the entitlement period. We use an analytic tool we’ve developed called the Infatuation Interval Index (I-Cubed) to score how deeply, how broadly, and how long an offering infatuates its target audience.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters System Airlines Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Processes and tools for understanding root causes. A well-known early adopter of the Net Promoter system began linking NPS improvement to executive compensation before it had developed adequate disciplines and processes for understanding its scores. "But The company's managers felt helpless and frustrated. Organized learning.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Observing early adopters, we’ve found that automated process change comes in three main flavors: self-adapting, self-repairing, or a combination of the two. To maintain the quality of its products, Shannon uses Sight Machine’s tools to analyze the grain flow of the metal in the parts it produces. (In

Process 8

Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

So it’s important to recognize that if we expect to expand impact investment based primarily on its profitability, we should expect to get just what we set out to create: a tool that has maximized profit over impact. By 2010, they had succeeded.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Connected spenders are the heaviest purchasers in categories including electronics, travel, and dining out, and they’re likely to be early adopters of new ways to buy in any category. Shoppers there will be looking for text-based tools to help them pay for items in local retail stores. In markets such as the U.S.,

Maturity 8

Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

This is where you take early adopters who want to make a change. If you were going to come [from the tech sector] into government, it was likely you were going to be working with old tools. So, we said, we’re going to be using the latest technologies and the latest tools. There was a risk there.

Advice 9

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Its unrivaled base of knowledge allows it to use price as a communications tool, a recruiting tool, a psychological weapon, and a value driver in ways that transcend the basic mechanics of supply and demand and profit and loss. Amazon’s relentless price testing in the online world anchors its competitive advantage.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. While we can’t yet predict how it will re-shape the market, the prevalence with which AI is already embedded into our core technologies favors early adoption.

How To 8

How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8